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AREOLE |
Small cavity |
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FOLLICLE |
Small cavity on the body |
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CELL |
Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
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ALVEOLUS |
A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil |
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MICROCEPHALOUS |
Having a small head; having the cranial cavity
small; -- opposed to megacephalic. |
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SINUS |
A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an
elongated abscess with only a small orifice. |
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POCKET |
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other
mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. |
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CRYPT |
A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as,
the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small
intestines. |
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BURSA |
Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial
sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed
between tendons and bony prominences. |
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CHARBON |
A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the
corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become
obliterated. |
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OYSTER |
A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in
a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back
of a fowl. |
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FIERASFER |
A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their
habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits
the gill cavity of ... |
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VESICLE |
A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of
the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic
rocks. They are prod... |
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LACUNA |
A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as
a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left
among the tiss... |
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BELEMNITE |
...at the
lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is
ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered co... |